Abstract

Clean and Healthy Behavior (PHBS) is a set of behaviors that are practiced on the basis of awareness as a result of learning, which makes a person, family, group or community able to help themselves in the field of health and play an active role in realizing public health. Efforts to realize PHBS in schools, among others, by implementing the indicator PHBS school, one of them wash hands with running water and using soap. The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of PHBS guidance on knowledge and practice of handwashing with soap for students with visual impairment of SLB as Tasikmalaya City Year 2017. This study was conducted using the one group pretest posttest design, ie the first observation (pretest) and followed the intervention of treatment, after which the last observation (posttest) that made possible changes after the treatment or intervention. Data analysis is done by using Wilcoxon Test. Wilcoxon test results for the analysis of knowledge data obtained Asymp value. Sig (2-tailed) is .000, while for handwashing data analysis, the value of Asymp is obtained. Sig (2-tailed) is .000 the mean of p <0.05 then the result of research according to statistics is very meaningful. In other words, the coaching of PHBS can improve the knowledge and practice of handwashing with soap on students with visual impairment. The conclusion of this research is the influence of PHBS guidance on Knowledge and Handwashing Practice with Soap on Blind Students of SLB as Tasikmalaya City.